The Silver Ring Thing Courts Lydia Playfoot
PERVERTS, suicide-minded Islamists and the sexually pure can tell you’re a virgin by checking out your “purity ring”.
Good to remain chaste and virginal. If that’s what you want to do. Others are into bondage, promiscuity and Margaret Beckett. You are into virginity. Ours is a tolerant society. Live and let live.
Member of the Silver Ring Thing are fine by us. As the group’s website teaches: “It is specially designed to train young people using DVD clips, group discussion and bible studies to communicate the risks associated with teen sexual activity, social pressures and the blessings of sexual abstinence.”
There are dangers is yielding to social pressure. Join the society of Silver Ring Thing and find out more.
And here is one girl who did join. She’s 16-year-old Lydia Playfoot (even her name stops short of full sex).
Lydia wears a purity ring. Her school, the Millais School, Horsham, West Sussex (start rubbing that ring, kids) says the ring is in breach of health and safety guidelines. Lydia believes is deciding things for herself and in freedom of choice.
Lydia’s dad Phil is programme director at the UK branch of Silver Ring Thing and her mother, Heather, the company secretary.
So Lydia takes her school to the High Court. She says her Ring Thing (no sniggering, kids) is a symbol of her Christian faith. But she loses.
And she tells us in a statement picked up in the Express that the ruling “will mean that slowly people such a school governors, employers, political organisations and others will be allowed to stop Christian from expressing and practising their faith”.
Miss Playfoot goes on: “The wearing of the ring was, to me, a demonstration of my Christian faith and values, which are based on the Bible, which clearly teaches that sex outside marriage is wrong and therefore not God’s best for us.”
She could wear a cross. But Miss Playfoot (get it out your system) wants to wear a ring. A cross says she is a Christian. A Silver Ring Thing says she is a virgin and waiting for Mr Right and, vitally, Mr Right’s penis.
This is God’s will. Just as it is God’s will that High Court judge Michael Superstone rules against the campaigner and says: “The school was fully justified in acting as it did.”
Which is bad news for Lydia, who must return home to talk with her mum and dad about not having sex and wonder what to do next…
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September 11th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Her dad phil playfoot runs the church, her mum heather also has alot to do with business and andy robinson also a leader of the church helps keep the money ball rolling.
As well as the silver ring thing they have the tract society, make those little baby foot print molds, faith in action in which they go to help the poor in other countrys by having their photos taken with the poorly clothed, half starved brown children oh for the love of god the lies , lots of rich people at church to entertain and collect from, are linked to the hillsongs cult and if you haven’t got much money they will treat you like the evil person you are lol and if they can’t cast the demon out they will shunn you out.
lydia is going to bethel school of supernatural in california and not wearing her ring.
It’s all about the money, don’t be fooled and don’t buy their products
July 27th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Do not be fooled by fake and hypocritical christians……they have Jesus and purity only in their words…..
Glory to Jesus and Mary.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Well i live in the same town and , Lydia hasn’t worn the ring for ages and she isn’t married so……………
July 18th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
it may have been better had they introduced the idea to the general public by promoting a mature woman, say in her early twenties and still a virgin.
The focus is on a 16 yr old because thats the one presented to a very cynical public . The movement itself isn’t being highly publicised is it? In fact they may well be causing her more embarressment than anyone
I’d have said there were a lot of young lads and older ones too obsessing about deflowering her, and she is 16 , the age of consent , yes?
July 18th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I think you’re underestimating ‘the ring thing’ as a movement, there are many thousands of supporters all around the country; a baptist church near me has ‘ring thing’ prayer evenings. Also everyone has overlooked the fact that there are boys as well as girls in the movement..
Why is the focus here on one naive young girl and not on the movement itself?
IMO obsessing about ‘deflowering’ a 16 year old virgin is v. dubious behaviour.
July 18th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Fathers do tend to put their daughters on virginal pedestals, which is so damn silly of them as once they turn 18 they will do as they wish with their own body.
Shouldn’t also the whole young girl matter to her dad, not just her hymen. Back to the age of being chattels…..
Chopper, can you imagine the media interest when she stops wearing it? and the ‘glory’ heaped on the cherrypicker?
July 18th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Imagine what her old man will say if she suddenly stops wearing it.
July 18th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
She doesn’t give a fuck so why should anyone else?
July 18th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
It would carry more meaning if she were older and knew what she was talking about, and opted for celibacy as a choice. She has yet to fall for someone in a big way, then the whole statement will have meaning when she still says no.
Agree its not a religious thing either, but there are a lot of people who do choose not to sleep around , and still aren’t virgins but can refuse sex for its own sake.
Really a matter of telling the pricks from the men, and a ring isn’t going to help there.
July 18th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
My guess is the girl has been brainwashed / bullied….
It’s the same scenario as the case of the 16 year old who allegedly decided all by herself that she wanted to be covered from head to toe. Turned out her brother / guardian was a fundamentalist muslim.
This girls father is a ‘ring thing’ king pin so one can only imagine the family dynamics!
I personally don’t see why anyone needs to wears displays of religion but the ‘ring’ isn’t even that. It’s something fundamentalist christian parents contrived quite recently.
July 18th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
She says it is symbol of her beliefs. So should she be allowed to wear it? I think it’s an oddity to display your viginity to the world. It’s personal thing. Keep it so. And what happened to just saying no?
July 18th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Now that is funny Billy!
July 18th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Me personally offended? Nope. Too much experience to ever be personally offended by the inarticulate.
However, do I find posts like that on a public forum offensive? Oh Yes indeed I do!
And of course so very childish…
July 18th, 2007 at 9:26 am
So you have nothing to say and had nothing to say except that you’re offended by Ebay or buttplugs or the possibility of a 16 year old having sex (or not). Rather sad individual Moderation, I would suggest you get out a bit more.
July 18th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Simon said… (no pun intended) Anyway that’s quite enough on this one I think…
Hence…. I thought that was it!
Counter argument to what? I’ve said what I think about the obscenities… borderline paedophilia, full stop.
July 18th, 2007 at 8:52 am
So you have no counter-argument or anything constructive to say then Moderation?
July 18th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Oh wow Simon, so easily offended by an innocuous comment of mine and yet not by the nastiness of any of the above. Weird…
July 18th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Didn’t you read the gutter press’s take on this story splashed all over the country - and you’re having a go at me?! I think you’re the one that’s been offended but I’m not going to apologise to you or anybody else for taking offence when no offence was intended. Site’s like this allow us to express ourselves which I think is positive.
In your opinion the jibes were unfunny. I thought I was hilarious.
Anyway that’s quite enough on this one I think.
July 18th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Simon… Meaningful debate would be great… however v. unfunny obscenities aimed at a young girl who has no doubt been forced into this by her father (one of the founder members of this ‘ring thing’) is not great!
Oh, and which particular rock are you thinking about? that;s hardly meaningful debate either!
July 18th, 2007 at 2:16 am
I hope this girl chooses to appeal the verdict.
July 17th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Moderation. I absolutely would and that’s me coming from and living in Bradford (although not for long I am thankful to add). I realised early on in my life that religion is just a club for the ignorant that furthers its cause by scaremongering, suppressing free speech and does nothing except divide. And whether it’s a ring to proclaim ones Christian affiliation or one of those Spidermen outfits for Muslim women (?) that way inclined, I pigeonhole them into that increasing growing band of the population that is attempting to isolate themselves from the mainstream because they are completely disillusioned with life. Moderation, I would prefer us to enter into meaningful debate on this subject, but alas I sense that you will shy away to back under that rock you came from.
July 17th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Aha. Children at play. I should have guessed!
Bet you wouldn’t dare say similar about other religions though.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Oh shut up Moderation. She’s old enough to take her school to the high courts and proclaim to the world a facet of her life that should be extremely personal, which incidentally I doubt anyone actually cares about apart from being a mildly amusing story about one disillusioned youth. So a bit of banter’s due.
And you’ll hear worse on BB tonight if you’re allowed to stay up that late. And for your info I’m 17 years old so that would hardly make me a paedo, but I still wouldn’t touch her with yours.
July 17th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
I guess this is where all the borderline paedos hang out.
This is a 16 year old girl you’re talking about isn’t it?
Creeps. ….
July 17th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I think it’s all a publicity stunt. She’ll be on Ebay soon. My sources tell me that bidding for hand job from a “virgin” starts at £100. Ebay actually kicked out her original listing - to sniff her buttplug for £500 buy it now. Kids of today eh…
July 17th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Can she do hand jobs etc or is it just full sex she’s not allowed to do? Is she allowed to mastabate or get fingered? I think we should be told.
July 17th, 2007 at 11:48 am
It’s not that she dosn’t want sex - all teenagers want it. Her father is obviously a miserable wretch who’s sole pleasure in life is brainwashing his daughter because he’s been sexually frustrated ever since his wife laughed at the size of his manhood. And he can’t even get it up her - and by all accounts she’s a right slag.
July 17th, 2007 at 11:41 am
I think that girls should have to wear a ring with a brown gemstone to signify whether they have taken it up the wrong ‘un.
July 17th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Pure indulgance in pleasure may not be everyone’s business!
My support is for Lydia. Poor girl wanted to make it a point, to which I completly agree. Why has being a virgin lost its fashion?!
You know how sweet the memory is to love someone and allow him to enter in to your body for the first time?! How sweet it is to tell your husband that he is the first man entering your body! What do you call such a thing? Deflower?!
It is true that the first love, the first time of sex, and the first veginal penetration always remain with us till our grave. Those who say they dont remember who they had first sex with are hypocrites. They are lying.
I remember my first love making at the age of 16… I resented it because it is with someone totally unknown happened just in pure passion. I remember that person, the smell, the bodily contact. However, now looking back I regret it that I had not abstained from sex. How I wished to stay as virgin for my partner! How much I wanted to be for my partner only.
You may say it is silly nonsence. But see being virgin as a gift! Christian or not virgin ring should stay!
I want Virgin Ring to be a LAW! If anyone wearing a virgin ring is approached then they should be liable to sexual harrassment
July 17th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Not much sympathy here is there lol
No sympathy here either, if she’s so against sex before marriage then I’m sure she can find someone to make her a chastity belt, I’m sure thats within the bounds of H & S
July 17th, 2007 at 10:52 am
I am glad she lost the case. I am also a Christian but I know her behaviour contradicts the Bible, which I think is ironic! Without sounding pious, Romans 13 states one must obey authority and not rebel. And women are not allowed to wear jewellery, Biblically speaking. So, sorry dear, you’re wrong to wear the ring at school.